I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
~By Aaron Klug ~
Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?
~By Willie Aames ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
~By M. Russell Ballard ~
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
~By John Sexton ~
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
~By Dan Simmons ~
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
~By Glenn Beck ~
Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
~By Taryn Manning ~
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~By Buddha ~
I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
~By Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ~
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
~By William Glasser ~
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
~By Neil LaBute ~
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
~By Jim Harrison ~
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
~By Mary Garden ~
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
~By William P. Leahy ~
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
~By George Savile ~
I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.
~By John Engler ~
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
~By Paul Rodriguez ~
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
~By William H. Hunt ~
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
~By Helen Garner ~
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
~By John Cameron ~
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
~By Margaret Mead ~
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
~By Bram Stoker ~
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
~By Edward Tufte ~
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
~By Horace ~
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
~By George Stigler ~
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
~By John Clayton ~
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
~By James Levine ~
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
~By Colin Firth ~
John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
~By Franz Boas ~
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
~By Shelley Berman ~
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
~By David Eddings ~
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
~By John Woolman ~
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
~By John Engler ~
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
~By Marguerite Young ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
~By David Minge ~
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
~By Audre Lorde ~
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
~By William Bennett ~
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.
~By Rick Santorum ~
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
~By Fred W. Friendly ~
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
~By Randall Terry ~
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
~By Charles Schumer ~
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
~By Peter Drucker ~
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
~By Venerable Bede ~
We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
~By Sheena Easton ~
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.
~By Frederick Reines ~
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
~By David Eddings ~
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
~By Eric Bristow ~
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
~By Ann Richards ~
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~By Aristotle ~
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
~By James Carville ~
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
~By William Glasser ~
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
~By Hans Frank ~
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
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